Fished the Rock Hall tournement this weekend. Fortunately chose work over fishing Friday and I think it actually paid off because it was miserably wet out there. We fished Sat and Sun from Balt light to sewer pipe to triple buoys. We chose to troll even though a lot of people were chumming (I still HATE chumming!!)
We ran 1 board Saturday with 5 rods and 9 boat rods so it made quite a mess when we hooked up with a skate a few times. Biggest fish was 27.5" on small BFG with 10 oz total out about 70' in 45' of water. Did box 3 other smaller fish as well. We weighed in nothing and the winner was 16+ lbs.
Sunday trolled the same area again and caught a lot more fish, but again, weighed in nothing. This time we kept it simple by running 5 boat rods with 2 hooks on each. We ran 2 of Capt John's spoon spreader bars, a spoonbrella, and 2 rods with BFG's. A few times a school came up to the top breaking and we were quick to have 10 fish on at once. It was pandemonium!!! Downside- biggest fish Sunday was 24"ish. Upside- great time, good friends, and caught a lot of fish. Sunday's winner was 22lbs with I think 19lbs in 2nd and 16lbs in 3rd
** Question of the day- how do you run boards with all the small fish around? Run big baits so small fish don't bother them? Run super light rubber bands so they break easy? OR do something else I didn't think of? We chose small baits with medium rubber bands and a couple of times had to pull in the rods to manually break the bands (hence no board on Sunday). Most of the boats that were trolling, were all running boards. Suggestions?
Late weekend report- Rock Hall tournament
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